LACHNELLA. 275 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 



Hymenium greenish-olive . . . . . . . . ntfo-oliracea. 



Hymenium umber-brown . . . . . , . . fraxinicola. 



Hymenium brownish . . . . . . . . . . aipuria. 



A. SPORIDIA ELLIPTIC. 



71. Lachnella rufo-olivacea. (A. and S.) 



Cups scattered, sessile, firm, hemispherical, then 

 plane; externally villose-pulverulent, dingy ferruginous- 

 red ; hymenium greenish-olive, at length black ; asci 

 cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, globose-elliptic, bi- 

 nucleate, becoming pseudo-septate, 15 X 7/u; paraphyses 

 filiform, septate, thickened at the apices. (Plate VIII. 

 fig. 49.) 



Peziza rufo-olivacea A. and S., "Consp.," 320, t. 11, 

 f. 4 ; Fries, Sys. Myco.," ii. p. 99 ; Eng. Flo," v. p. 197 ; 

 Mart., " Erl. ," p. 464 ; Cooke, " Handbk.," No. 2046. 

 Velutaria rufo-olivacea- -~Fck\., " Symb. Myco," p. 300. 

 Lachnea rufo-olivacea Gill, " Champ," p. 85. 



Exs. Rabh, "Fung. Eur," 1420; Fckl, "F. Rh," 

 1192. 



On dead branches of rose and bramble. 



Cups J to J a line broad. Coarse brown granules 

 are found on the exterior amongst the tomentum. 



Name Rufus, reddish-brown, plivaceus, olive -colour. 



Longmynd and Red Hill, near Shrewsbury ! Forces, 

 N.B. ! (Rev. Dr. Keith). 



72. Lachnella fraxinicola. (B. and Br.) 



Cups scattered or gregarious, sessile, at first closed, 

 then opening with an irregular aperture, at length 

 orbicular, slightly depressed ; externally pale fawn-colour, 

 furfuraceous ; internally brown ; hymenium umber- 

 brown ; asci cylindraceo-clavate ; sporidia 8, broadly 

 elliptic, faintly brown, 10 13 x 7- -fyi. 



Peziza fraxinicola B. and Br, " Ann. Nat. Hist," 

 1160, t. 4, f. 21 ; Cooke, " Handbk," 2011. 



On ash-twio-s. 



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Cups about J a line broad, plane or slightly concave, 



